People are already believing in a second Showcase this year
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People are already believing in a second Showcase this year
Team Second Showcase 2023!
I totally believe Tom when he is saying that there is trailer that he has seen that wasn't shown with how accurate he is, but I don't think it necessarily mean a second showcase we saw glimpse of helldiver 2 trailer last year and only get the official reveal this year, the trailers he saw can be saved for latter.
Square or Sony probably didn't want to have both FF games in the same show
I think the answer is simple.
SGF is the second showcase!
Time to start the hopes for everything all over again.
Dont do that lol
Marketing is marketing. In the grand scheme of things it won't matter one bit which Showcase it's shown at, it'll still have the same overall effect towards sales of the game.
Could be Square wanted to split it up between 2 events. Could be Sony did too. Could be Sony originally had planned for more content at the PS Showcase (ie. Deviations game, TLOU MP...) that got pulled, and they had already committed FF7 Rebirth to the SGF event. We can speculate on the multiple ways things may have played out, at the end of the day marketing is marketing and what matters most to them are sales of the game and it won't matter which event it shows up at, so long as it shows up.
Well the Helldivers 2 trailer was no doubt created for the 2022 PlayStation Showcase that got cancelled, as Grubb reported, since some games weren't ready. Once that Showcase was cancelled Sony decided to host 2 very beefy State of Plays with the remaining content they had lined up in June and September, and the Helldivers 2 trailer was just moved to the 2023 Showcase.
I still think a second Showcase will happen, regardless of what Tom or any other insiders may say. It could be the trailer(s) he's seen will show up at SGF, we'll see in a few days.
I've been eagerly waiting ever since the credits rolled on the first one lol amazing how it feels like a lifetime ago yet it's only been 3 years
Yeah, articles and numbers seem to be getting updated as more info comes in, lol.
At first it was 113M.
A $7m difference which is reported what Sony paid for the property ironically.
Across the Spider-Verse got me so hyped I picked up the Remaster today and starting a NG+ play through, this should hold me over till FF16.
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This looks new? I dont remember this in the showcase trailer.
Yeah, reading about this now. I had no idea it was that bad for Marvel back in the day. Literally giving Spider-Man away.
10 million in three days might be too high for not a Zelda game, in my opinion.
But hey, I definitely don't mind if that would happen.
+ we also might see them PR bragging again a week later after launch & don't have to wait for two weeks for a 5 days sales PR or waiting for studio's 20th anniversary.
It should easily be the biggest game in their PS5 lineup for a while.
Sonavabitch that's hilarious. I just assumed it was PS4 Spidey gameplay
I cannot tell you how excited I am now for SM2 after Spider-Verse.
That's not a realistic expectation due to Spidey 2 being PS5 exclusive, a platform which has a far lower install base than the Switch. If it was cross-gen on the other hand...
It should have great legs (heh) though as people will continue picking up PS5s and ofc Spider-Man 2 with it.
I can't see that happening. By the time Spider-Man 2 launches, the PS5 will have ~1/3rd of the install base that the Switch has now. The game will break Sony records and I wouldn't be surprised if over the long term this game outsells TotK, but I don't see the game selling 10+m in the first three days.
It's really hard for that to happen without the massive sales that Nintendo has in Japan.
GoWR sold almost as good as Pokémon S/V WW 5m vs 5.9m, but when you include Japan? Pokémon almost doubled GoWR number 10m vs 5.1m.
For Spider-Man 2, to be able to compete with Zelda in sales, it has to make up for the 2.4 million copies sold in Japan around the world.
You could barely make out with the amount of time its there tbf, movie has a lot for your eyes to wander towards, also who would expect an unreleased game to be promoted through the actual movie lol
Yeah, if you go back and look at showcases both great and small, the only ones that really change things from a sales perspective are the system reveals when the companies announce the prices and the launch games and show off the new technology. Those are the crucial ones.
The other ones are great for hype and all that but once the momentum is going it's kind of hard to either stop or jumpstart it, depending on which way it's going. Certainly introducing hardware revisions during showcases has helped jumpstart sales in the past, but the showcases themselves aren't necessary for that. Just announcing a price cut at any random time may have the same effect.
Customers tend to focus more on products coming out soon than those coming out in the future. It's why consoles sell such big numbers at a big game's release, even older systems like the Switch with TOTK. Granted, those showcases can help build up hype for those releases in the future (which is likely this showcase's one big success in that SM2 was very well received), but a lackluster showcase by itself isn't going to affect much either way.
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Already more than half of what Into the Spider-Verse did lifetime, damn.
It won't. I think GoW Ragnarok's sales are a closer model, though I'm sure it'll beat that.
I wonder if Haven will become a multiproject studio. Montreal is such a big development hub, that I think it would be smart for Haven to expand into one.
Everything will depend on the success of Fairgame$.
Sony was ready to fund all 3 projects Haven pitched them so odds are they will be.
It is smart of Sony to have studios in all the big hubs, means they can easily scoop up talent when studios churn or fall. They can just expand their studios rather than having to buy new ones - which has a number of benefits like being cheaper, better support within the studio etc.
Haven can quite easily expand and become a multi-project developer, I imagine that is likely the plan.
That would indeed be weird, at that point PlayStation should question the person who is co-ordinating these trailers for showcases. We need more people like Adam Boyes and Gio Corsi who understood the PlayStation hardcore audience.
PS is strong as it even been and more popular then ever maybe just maybe they know what they are doing.
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They're actually gonna use SGF to announced Final Fantasy Advent Children Remake as a live action film in partnership between SE and PS Productions. It'll be 2hrs of live action Tifa repeating dilly dally shilly shally. Coming this Winter.
Please be excited
I hate Advent Children... but Geoff being forced to watch that live would be pretty fun 👹
The current leadership is basically riding on PS4 success. I'll reserve judgement for the end of this gen. Because I'm not impressed with their current focus.
You cannot be serious. You should know every well how things can change form generation to generation.
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